Tagged Paul McGann

Do Time Lords look like humans or do humans look like Time Lords? The fandom debate about this has been on going since the show started. The Doctor loves humans. He has saved the Earth from total destruction time and time again. One could argue he has an almost inordinate love for our species, so…

For a very long time, Radio Times has been a great supporter of programmes like Doctor Who and the people that work for the magazine seem to be just as excited as we are when reporting news about the show and what’s going on with the cast. So it’s nice to see when those reporting…

Stars of Doctor Who past and present will be attending The Shadow Proclamation, a convention at Middlesbrough on the weekend of the Saturday 23rd and 24th August. For the inexplicably unaware among you, Middlesbrough is in the North East of England, situated about halfway between York and Newcastle-upon-Tyne. Crucially, it is also the area from…

It’s rare that such a weird and wonderful collection of intergalactic notables assemble under one roof, but the Cambridge Union has bettered the most masterful of Daleks’ plans. The Easter term (wisely named after the Chocolaty holiday that kicks if off – why not?) has a list of guest speakers including the Nobel Peace Prize…

We last saw him in The Shakespeare Code (2007) but an upcoming book will chart the history of the Doctor’s adventures with William Shakespeare! We first saw the Bard in 1965’s The Chase via the Time-Space Visualiser, but of course the Doctor has had many meetings with the great man. Here’s what we can expect from The Shakespeare Notebooks: Newly…

Catch up with Paul McGann, as he discussed life after Eight – in Doctor Who Magazine 472! Also in this issue: · DWM goes behind the scenes and talks exclusively with the director of the recent episodes Hide and The Time of the Doctor, Jamie Payne. · John Levene recalls his time playing Cybermen, Yeti…

MILD SPOILERS FOLLOW… The Doctor Who Universe is ever so lightly changed after the 50th anniversary. We met new Doctors, discovered long kept secrets and, perhaps most excitingly of all, got to see the Eighth Doctor on our television screens once more. It was fleeting, shocking and heartbreaking all in less than ten minutes; some…